I found this is a pretty positive test. Honestly especially at the 65 mph without towing. But even the towing numbers were pretty good I thought. If you're towing around a city at 55 to 60 65 mph you got a pretty usable truck. No is designed to do long distance towing.
We just got our new XLR. How heavy is your trailer and what is the average range towing with yours?
This is so depressingPulling the medium size travel trailer, was getting around 1,185 wh/mile netting about 80-90 miles of range if using 80-100% of the battery pack.
5,800lb trailer
Max speed of 65 mph Average speed of about 55MPH as a mix of city/town/country driving
Almost whole battery was used for first 92 mile test
Air temp was between 48-58F
Tire pressure on A/T at 65PSI wheels had no aero caps "they are ugly as...."
Minimal HVAC Used
Similar result as other towing tests
When pulling a medium size trailer load you get about 90 miles of range if you use the whole pack.
Using a normal 80% your looking at around 80 miles of range.
The rear and side cameras used for monitoring the trailer load looked really nice, which is great with the lack of a rear view mirror with vault closed.
In general it looks like when not towing CT is getting 165-215 range across about 20different vehicles with a total of over 15,000 miles assuming 80% of pack is used. So the rough rule of of EVs getting about a 50% range cut when towing is holding up for the most part.
Cyberbeast got a little less than 1/3 of the EPA range when towing.
Big props to [name removed until vid is made public] for doing these tests, video will be public semi soon and will post the links to it.
At this point no one has towed an extremely light sub 1,000lb and highly aerodynamic trailer which should give much higher range numbers, but we are also waiting for a large box trailer that is close to 10,000lbs to give us the full story on the bad towing news.
After we have seen 5 different towing tests across multiple Cybertrucks and very different trailer loads it looks like when using most of the battery capacity and hauling medium loads; while towing the Cybertruck is getting to get about 70-100 miles of range across a variety of loads, models, and temperature conditions.
Pulling the medium size travel trailer, was getting around 1,185 wh/mile netting about 80-90 miles of range if using 80-100% of the battery pack.
AKA from PerfectFlaw
Realistically, I'm rolling ~100miles between charges - typically one charge or two on the road, then overnight at a campsite to slow charge overnight from the NEMA 1450 (with the camper plugged into the 30amp outlet). The camper is a Trailmanor that folds down lower-profile, ~3500-4000 lbs.
I had searched on '5700 lbs', but didn't search on 'camper'. Figured that '5700' would've been used though since it was in the owner's video title. But we're now merged into the original thread.
Not sure if my Gsheet is worth doing but I created one.
Pulling the medium size travel trailer, was getting around 1,185 wh/mile netting about 80-90 miles of range if using 80-100% of the battery pack.
5,800lb trailer
Max speed of 65 mph Average speed of about 55MPH as a mix of city/town/country driving
Almost whole battery was used for first 92 mile test
Air temp was between 48-58F
Tire pressure on A/T at 65PSI wheels had no aero caps "they are ugly as...."
Minimal HVAC Used
Similar result as other towing tests
When pulling a medium size trailer load you get about 90 miles of range if you use the whole pack.
Using a normal 80% your looking at around 80 miles of range.
The rear and side cameras used for monitoring the trailer load looked really nice, which is great with the lack of a rear view mirror with vault closed.
In general it looks like when not towing CT is getting 165-215 range across about 20different vehicles with a total of over 15,000 miles assuming 80% of pack is used. So the rough rule of of EVs getting about a 50% range cut when towing is holding up for the most part.
Cyberbeast got a little less than 1/3 of the EPA range when towing.
Big props to [name removed until vid is made public] for doing these tests, video will be public semi soon and will post the links to it.
At this point no one has towed an extremely light sub 1,000lb and highly aerodynamic trailer which should give much higher range numbers, but we are also waiting for a large box trailer that is close to 10,000lbs to give us the full story on the bad towing news.
After we have seen 5 different towing tests across multiple Cybertrucks and very different trailer loads it looks like when using most of the battery capacity and hauling medium loads; while towing the Cybertruck is getting to get about 70-100 miles of range across a variety of loads, models, and temperature conditions.
Pulling the medium size travel trailer, was getting around 1,185 wh/mile netting about 80-90 miles of range if using 80-100% of the battery pack.
AKA from PerfectFlaw
the effect of weight is really negligible (assuming the operator has properly inflated the vehicle and trailer tires, and that the trailer itself is in good operating condition). several tests with eg the lightning have shown this, where e.g. a very heavy flatbed load has significantly less impact than eg a light but large box trailer.
Just to add onto what’s already been covered, the cross section matters greatly, if the tow package/camper/vehicle is several feet taller than the tow vehicle that is now part of the cross section that is initially cutting the wind and this changes dramatically the vehicle combined COD while towing.
ive touched on it several places elsewhere
If you have full control of the air suspension how would nose down and ass up affect the range and drag from the tow package.
